This article, based on almost eight years of continuous anthropological research amongst the Tuareg people of the Sahara and Sahel, suggests that the launch by the US and its main regional ally, Algeria, in 2002–2003 of a ‘new’, ‘second’, or ‘Saharan’ Front in the ‘War on Terror’ was largely a fabrication on the part of the US and Algerian military intelligence services. The ‘official truth’, embodied in an estimated 3,000 articles and reports of one sort or another, is largely disinformation. The article summarizes how and why this deception was effected and examines briefly its implications for both the region and its people as well as the future of US international relations and especially its global pursuance of an increasingly suspect ‘War on Terror’.
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The making of terrorists
Anthropology and the alternative truth of America's 'War on Terror' in the Sahara
Jeremy Keenan
Alimentation et dessiccation en contexte saharien
Le goût du sec
Marie-Luce Gélard
Pour le sens commun, le Sahara n'est bon qu'à être contemplé. Il ne ferait pas bon y vivre. J'ai pu constater à quel point la divergence des points de vue était frappante entre une région présentée par des lectures exogènes (récits de voyages
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 55–71
Transit Migration in Niger
Stemming the Flows of Migrants, but at What Cost?
Sébastien Moretti
of Ethnic and Migration Studies 42 ( 7 ): 1055 – 1075 . 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1139446 Brachet , Julien . 2018 . “ Manufacturing Smugglers: From Irregular to Clandestine Mobility in the Sahara .” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
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Emerging Kinship in a Changing Middle East
Soraya Tremayne
refugee camps in the western Sahara Desert, whose kinship structure has faced increasing threat of disruption, and points out that the Sahrāwī women, faced with the possibility of losing their kin men, who are traders and on the move, have created new milk
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Reconceptualizing Transit States in an Era of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Obfuscation
Antje Missbach and Melissa Phillips
’ of EU Immigration and Asylum Policy .” International Affairs 79 : 619 – 638 . 10.1111/1468-2346.00326 Brachet , Julien . 2018 . “ Manufacturing Smugglers: From Irregular to Clandestine Mobility in the Sahara .” The ANNALS of the American
De Berlin à la conquête du monde
L'irrésistible expansion du döner kebab
Stéphane de Tapia
du Sahara et d'Arabie, qui mixait populations, traditions et produits, au moins au Palais ; elle mêle encore sans doute origines nomades centrasiatiques et traditions byzantines, mais aussi « coloniales » (terme que récuserait évidemment l
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
- Pages:
- 194–204
From Ecuador to Elsewhere
The (Re)Configuration of a Transit Country
Soledad Álvarez Velasco
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Laborers, Migrants, Refugees
Managing Belonging, Bodies, and Mobility in (Post)Colonial Kenya and Tanzania
Hanno Brankamp and Patricia Daley
University Press . Brooks , Hugh , and Yassin El-Ayouty , eds. 1970 . Refugees South of the Sahara: An African Dilemma . Westport, CT : Negro Universities Press . Browne , Simone . 2015 . Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness . Durham, NC
Julien Brachet, Victoria L. Klinkert, Cory Rodgers, Robtel Neajai Pailey, Elieth Eyebiyi, Rachel Benchekroun, Grzegorz Micek, Natasha N. Iskander, Aydan Greatrick, Alexandra Bousiou, and Anne White
fears” (6). The first part of the book, “The Story of the Map,” shows in various contexts how danger is perceived, constructed, and mapped, often from afar, in order to divide and control. Andersson explains how the Sahara, and especially Mali, has been
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
refugees drawn from different nationalities and ethnicities have built solidarity and effected change ( Papadopoulos and Tsianos 2013 ). Examples include collective action by sub-Saharan Africans thrown together in emergent communities crossing the Sahara